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    Heavy Metal Movie's Directors May Rock Your World

    The Curious Lawsuit Against Benjamin Button

    Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death

    Surprise: Benjamin Button Is Actually Sexy

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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    06/08/09

    In reply to Heavy Metal Movie's Directors May Rock Your World
    That's all nice and fine. I just hope the animation quality is a fair bit better then the last Heavy Metal outing. Did they remember to leave that in the budget?


    Oh, and will we hear Jack Black belt out one of his tunes?

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    06/08/09

    In reply to Heavy Metal Movie's Directors May Rock Your World
    I was in high school when the first one came out. Never saw it. I remember Heavy Metal being this European imported magazine of arty, fantasy, lowbrow science fiction--mostly nerd wack material involving paintings and drawings of nakkid ladies.


    As a teenager I remember blushing visibly just walking past the magazine rack as I walked into the bookstore to buy more Niven.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/08/09

    @corpore-metal: Nekkid men too. Or at least a nekkid man, with a terrifyingly huge schlong.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/08/09

    In reply to Heavy Metal Movie's Directors May Rock Your World
    This is all good news. I can't friggin wait. Totally not a disaster.
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    Image of WinWordsClyde WinWordsClyde
    06/08/09

    In reply to Heavy Metal Movie's Directors May Rock Your World
    Exciting news, of course, but of more importance: who will re-record Sammy Hagar's theme song from the original movie???!!! Arcade Fire? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Or... oh crap, it'll probably be Aerosmith.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/08/09

    @WinWordsClyde: ARCADE FIRE?! Please tell me you're kidding.
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    Image of B B
    06/08/09

    @WinWordsClyde: I'm hoping for Dethklok, or Mastodon.
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    01/31/09

    In reply to The Curious Lawsuit Against Benjamin Button
    I wrote this story too. Except it was about a talking lobster and his imaginary friend trying to save the rainbow forest from the evil King Vicious III.
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    01/31/09

    @OW-Holmes: What!? you totally ripped off my story about a talking crab and his imaginary friend trying to save the rainbow jungle from Queen Malicious III!
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    Image of collex collex
    01/31/09

    In reply to The Curious Lawsuit Against Benjamin Button
    This happen all the time. A book/movie become popular and makes a lot of money and, suddenly, 4 people claim to have been plagiarized. It happened for Harry Potter, for Da Vinci Code etc.


    Most of the time, it is pure opportunism. The people that make this claim don,t expect to win. All tey want is that people will talk about the lawsuit- and about their book. Free advertizing!

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/31/09

    @collex: Wait someone else actually came forward and tried to take credit for The Da Vinci Code??


    I guess they didn't they read the book and/or see the movie first...

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    Image of strangrnstranglnd strangrnstranglnd
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    I think the reviewer is WAY too cynical - as are most movie-goers these days.


    We need to get rid of our "go to it or rent it" mindset. Go see movies. Let them take you somewhere. Let them open your mind. Stop watching "making of" shows. Stop critiquing movies like you have some authority on it - I hate to hear regular Joes use movie-making jargon like "plot" and "pacing." And please please please get over the special effects issues. I can sit through and enjoy the original Superman just like I can a modern special effects movie. You just have to suspend your disbelief.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/24/08

    @strangrnstranglnd: Fair enough... honestly I went to see this movie with an open mind, and didn't like it very much. I'm letting people know, which is the purpose of a review. Movie reviews have existed for as long as there have been movies, so it's not like you're discussing a new phenomenon. (And I was reviewing movies for print newspapers long before I started writing on here.)
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    Image of Plague Plague
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    " I always think, when reviewing a non-genre film like Button for io9, it's important to focus on its genre elements and how they're functioning in the story"


    Uh, why?

    This seems like a rather pedantic or forced way to review any film- and whether or not it's true, it comes off as sounding like you had pre-conceived notions before even entering the theater.


    Whether a movie fits into any particular genre should be the last thing someone should think about when viewing a film.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/24/08

    @Plague: Well, as you'll see above, that idea didn't particularly dominate my review. Nor did I have it in the front of my mind when I watched the film. But I do think it's worthwhile to think about how non-genre films use genre elements.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    12/24/08

    @Charlie Jane Anders:

    To me saying that his "super power" is a metaphor for the entire film's viewpoint is pretty dominant.

    But maybe I'm just reading too much into it.
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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    Interesting. I've been pondering lately that I may be approaching the point when I am closer to dying than to being born (of course, I could get hit by a bus, get cancer or be eaten by zombies in the next year, meaning I'd have passed that point 15 years ago, but based on averages). So with that in mind, I'll not be spending three hours of my fading future with poor old/young Benjamin Button.
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    Image of zslane zslane
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    The whole business of making Brad up as an old man, and superimposing his features onto various other people's bodies, is weirdly convincing.


    Charlie Jane, could you explain this process in a little more detail? What do you mean when you say "making Brad up as an old man"?

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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/24/08

    @zslane: google "Image Metrics", and there are other posts here about Benjamin Button.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/24/08

    @zslane: Yeah, as goldfarb says, we've covered it in detail elsewhere. I should probably add a link back to our previous coverage.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    12/09/08

    In reply to Surprise: Benjamin Button Is Actually Sexy
    I liked the short story. I'm looking forward to the movie... I won't be watching these clips though. I've already seen from the trailer that there's going to be a lot of departure, so I'll just save my excitement for the full viewing experience.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    12/08/08

    In reply to Surprise: Benjamin Button Is Actually Sexy
    Looks promising. I just have this niggling fear that it might turn out to be Forrest Gump for Black Book subscribers.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    12/08/08

    In reply to Surprise: Benjamin Button Is Actually Sexy
    I don't care how old he is. This man brings teh sex.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/24/08

    In reply to Benjamin Button's Backwards Love Story (And Score) Will Melt Your Heart
    My heart hasn't reformed since I got the WALL-E DVD. I should stop watching it for a while if I want my heart to be melted again by another movie. Which will be nigh impossible now that I have a tiny WALL-E and EVE right in front of me on my desktop.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    11/24/08

    In reply to Benjamin Button's Backwards Love Story (And Score) Will Melt Your Heart
    The link should work just fine, you have to click on the Benjamin Button poster.
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